The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-23
WEST AND SOUTH,

The City Council of Des Moines, Ia, is
sitting as a court Of impeachment to try
Police Judge Labour for abandonment Of
Office and embezzlement of money belong
ing to the city and county. The case is
novel in Iowa Jurisprudence and attorneys
differ as to the jur isdiction Of the Council
The wheat corner In Chicago was broken
on the 18th and June wheat took tumble
from ninety-two to seventy-fiv cents. A
number OF failures were reported.
At Lima, O., on the 18th q nine-months-
old daughter Of John Frail was scalded to
death by the upsetting Of pot of hot coffee
on her head.
While playing base ball at Lincoln,
Neb., few days ago, Ed Likely was struck
in the mouth by ball, which glanced from
his own bat. and instantly killed.
q Walter 8. Condor, Grand Secretary and
Treasurer Of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid
Association, at Kansas City, Mo-, is said to
be defaulter, the amount being variously
named at from q, 900 to 200. He has lost
Q considerable amount in gambling.
The Crosier Iron and Steel Company Of
Roanoke, Va, assigned on the 14th. The
preferred creditors amount to $37S, 600, and
the assignment was made, it is stated, for
the adjustment Of some legal difficulties,
among which Is q claim of $4,000.
nounces the death at that place on the 18th
of Hon. James Thorington, Of Davenport,
Ia. He was q member Of Congress from
1855 to 1859, and United States Consul at
Aspinwal from 1871 to 1882.
Unknown parties attempted to assassi-
nate ex-sherin William Ramsey and son, Of
Lexington, KY, as they were riding home
from Morehead, in Rowan County, that
State, on the 18th. They are seriously but
not fatally wounded. The men had been
up investigating the recent troubles.
Two colored women fought a duel with
razors near Woodruff, 8. c., few days
ago. The combatants fought desperately
until they succumbed from exhaustion
caused by the loss Of blood. Both were
frightfully wounded.
Six wagon loads of gambling tools, the
result Of series OF raids upon the gamb-
ling houses of Atlanta, Ga, were burned
at the intersection Of three OF the principal
streets Of that city on the 18th, under di-
rection Of the chief Of police. The aggre-
gate value OF the collection was not less
than $4,000.
Six masked highwaymen boarded street
car in Kansas City, No., on the night Of the
14th and robbed the driver of $3.50.
At the convention Of master car builders
in Minneapolis, Mimi, q few days ago,
the committee on accidents to trainmen
submitted report showing that during
1885 the 25,037 locomotives in the United
States killed ], ,426 employees and injured
6,54s.
The city of Grand Forks, D. T., and
vicinity was visited by cyclone on the 10th
which leveled seventy-two buildings and
caused the loss OF several lives. Miss Cora
Harbird and Mrs. A. NJ. Tappan were
I'M
wife and J. Lyons were probably fatally
injured, and q number OF others more or
less seriously hurt.
William Murchison, of jackson, Tenn,
who has tasted ninety days, taking neither
food nor drink during that time, died on the
10th.
Grifaths, Marshall & Co., the largest
grain commission men in Minneapolis,
Mimi, have announced a temporary sus-
pension.
A premature explosion of dynamite oc.
Cured a few days ago at the Inman iron
mines, twenty-five miles from Chattanooga
Tenn, resulting in the death of three con.
vfcts and the serious injury Of eight others
The prolonged strike on the ore docks al
Cleveland, O., ended on the 18th. The con
cessions asked by the men were agreed tt
and the twelve hundred strikers resumed
work at two dollars per day.
Guy Webber, Of Cincinnati, acting TO,
Eastern capitalists, has concluded the pur
chase Of two million acres ofland in Sonora
Mexico. The purchase is made from diff
ferent parties and the purpose is to estab
lish an American colony.
The bridge across Wills river at Byes
vile, o., gave way under q team of -four
horses on the 18th and fell through with 9
crash. Joseph Deal, McPyles, and boy
named Keith went down with the structure
and were probably fatally injured, Ths
bridge he'd been bvilt forty PEARS